Our next Contemplative Group Dynamics Workshop

7, 8 October 2017

Attention and Care

What is the relationship between mindfulness, as the cultivation of attention, and care for ourselves, others, and the world? We commonly join attention to care – to be caring requires attention. Conversely the lack of attention is carelessness.

Attention is a common factor of any change process. To alter a pattern, whether individual or group, we have to meet it in attention. When the energy of the pattern is stronger than the energy in attention we are taken by the pattern. For groups these patterns may take the form of flight into the past or future, and the fight energy of irritability and boredom. Such patterns move us away from presence and resonance. They are similar to becoming lost in thought during individual practice.

The true significance of the group is actualised when as a group we can sustain attention and not be taken by such social habits. This staying in attention and opening to the group expresses the care in the group, of the group, for the group.

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